Se stessi come interlocutori: soggetti e interpretazioni nel dialogo interreligioso

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay analyzes the conditions and forms of dialogue starting from the reflections of some contemporary Muslim philosophers, who though reaching different final results, however, share the assumption that the philosophical condition of necessity and possibility of dialogue is rooted in the awareness that no identity it is monolithic and no culture or religion is detached from a broader context with which it interacts and from which it is linked by multiple forms of contribution. The awareness of a degree of internal pluralism that characterizes every religion and culture, and also every individual identity, is the central rational-philosophical condition that legitimizes dialogue with the other by itself. From the point of view of the method of dialogue, this implies the exercise of searching for the shared elements but also of identifying and circumscribing the reciprocal irreducible religious "difference": this rhythm maintains the dialogue "in being", because it avoids the double obstacle of the affirmation of an absolute difference that leads to incommunicability and conflict, or on the contrary to indifferent fusionality, which cancels the status of otherness in a no less determined way.